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Quick-Closing Valve Allows Fish To Regulate the Water in Cells
A unique, quick-closing valve in an aquaporin – a water-regulating channel protein – has been identified in a species of fish, enabling it to rapidly adapt to new environments.
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Study Shows How Liver Cancer Cells Go Astray
New research from the University of Basel has unpicked the metabolic changes that convert a healthy liver cell to a tumor cell, identifying a cancer "signature" that could be used as a biomarker.
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Honey Improves Key Measures of Cardiometabolic Health
A review of clinical trials on honey has revealed that it lowered fasting blood glucose, "bad" cholesterol and triglycerides, improving cardiometabolic health.
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Genetic Links Between Traits Often Overstated?
Many estimates of how strongly traits and diseases share genetic signals may be inflated, according to a new UCLA-led study that indicates current methods for assessing genetic relationships between traits fail to account for mating patterns.
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Genotype Affects Metabolism of Essential Fatty Acids
Genetic background has an effect on the metabolism of the essential polyunsaturated fatty acids alpha-linolenic acid and linoleic acid, a recent study from the University of Eastern Finland shows.
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FDA Gives “Green Light” to Cultivated Meat Product for the First Time
On November 16, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced its first pre-market consultation for a human food made from cultured animal cells was complete. The consultation was with the California-based company UPSIDE Foods, which describes itself as the world’s first cultivated meat company, founded in 2015.
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Mitochondria Have a Waste Disposal Mechanism To Get Rid of Mutated mtDNA
Scientists at the University of Cologne have discovered how cells can eliminate mutated mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA).
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Antibiotic-Resistant Microbes in the Gut Make C. difficile More Infectious
Researchers have revealed that the antibiotic-resistant pathogen Enterococcus works together with to reshape the metabolic environment in the gut and enable to thrive.
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APOE4 Risk Gene Undermines Neuronal Insulation Process
Researchers have described how the APOE4 gene causes brain cells to mismanage cholesterol, resulting in myelin deficiency, which could be a contributing factor in Alzheimer's disease development.
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Enzymes Could Encourage DNA To Spontaneously Mutate
Scientists found that the part of the process by which DNA replicates itself happens at speeds 100 times faster than previously predicted. This finding sheds new light on the assumed theory that suggests quantum effects would not survive long enough to be impacted by the replication process.
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